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Breakfast of Champions Quotes
20 of the best book quotes from Breakfast of Champions
01
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
charm
concept
02
It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kilgore Trout
ᐧ
Kurt Vonnegut
characters
will to live
ᐧ
worthlessness
concepts
03
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kilgore Trout
character
mental health
concept
04
Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kilgore Trout
character
trying too hard to be friendly
ᐧ
not thinking
concepts
05
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
independent thinking
ᐧ
being too agreeable
concepts
06
The big show is inside my head.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
mental games
concept
07
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
charm
ᐧ
effects of charm
concepts
08
Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Dwayne Hoover
character
unreasonable
ᐧ
reason
concepts
09
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Dr. Breed
character
knowledge
ᐧ
power of knowledge
concepts
10
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
harm of chemicals
ᐧ
trying to improve life
concepts
11
Goodbye blue Monday.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Dwayne Hoover
character
depressing
ᐧ
mondays
concepts
12
The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
mental nonsense
concept
13
There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
order
ᐧ
adapting to chaos
concepts
14
If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, “Yeah, yeah - ain’t it the truth?”
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Robo Karabekian
character
being agreeable
ᐧ
making friends
concepts
15
Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Dwayne Hoover
character
dealing with hateful people
ᐧ
dealing with others
concepts
16
Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You’re sixteen, And ready for high school.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Dwayne Hoover's family
character
starting high school
ᐧ
being sixteen
concepts
17
Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
hatred of work
concept
18
Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
conversations
ᐧ
quoting television
concepts
19
I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
breaking point
ᐧ
purpose in life
concepts
20
In nonsense is strength.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
strength
ᐧ
nonsense
concepts
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The Jungle Book
Where the Crawdads Sing
Winnie the Pooh
charm
Kurt Vonnegut
Kilgore Trout
will to live
worthlessness
mental health
trying too hard to be friendly
not thinking
independent thinking
being too agreeable
mental games
effects of charm
unreasonable
reason
Dwayne Hoover
knowledge
power of knowledge
Dr. Breed
harm of chemicals
trying to improve life
depressing
mondays
mental nonsense
order
adapting to chaos
being agreeable
Robo Karabekian
making friends
dealing with hateful people
dealing with others
Dwayne Hoover's family
starting high school
being sixteen
hatred of work
conversations
quoting television
breaking point
purpose in life
strength
nonsense
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